Waltz Days

Once a month, before a regularly scheduled contra dance there will be a BONUS half-hour of waltz music. It’s an excellent time to practice your waltzing, learn something new from your fellow dancers and to just have a ball. There will be a simultaneous beginner lesson for contra with the best callers in the country, so bring all your friends to these awesome dances!Dates and bands below:

April 30th with Pete’s Posse (and Will Mentor calling the contras)
May 14th with Live Wire–a 5-person band!!  (Sarah VanNorstrand calls)
June 11th with Tempest (Linda Leslie calls)

Learn more about these awesome bands here:
Pete’s Posse: Twin fiddles in tight, wild harmony over high-powered guitar and pounding footwork with mandolin, clawhammer banjo, jawharp and rocking keyboards adding their voices to the mix. Songs and tunes, old and new, lyrical and driving; that’s the multi-generational heart and mind of PETE’S POSSE, at work and at play.

Pete Sutherland (fiddle, piano, banjo and vocals)

Oliver Scanlon (fiddle, mandolin, dobro, foot percussion and vocals)

Tristan Henderson (guitars, mandolin, jaw harp, bodhran, foot percussion and vocals).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAsZ66j3AvM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wZy4orO68YLive Wire is:
Ben Kennedy (piano)
Josh Burdick (fiddle)
Joe De Paolo (percussion)
of Coracree: Sarah Gowan (concertina, guitar) and Bill Quern (mando, banjo, melodeon)

Tempest blends traditional tunes with inventive, progressive grooves and harmonies that draw from jazz, world music, and pop/R&B.

http://tempestdanceband.com/
Chuck Abell (guitar, vocals)
Tim Ball (fiddle, vocals)
Eric Metzgar (drums)